CongoPeat
Past, Present and Future of the Peatlands of the Central Congo Basin
Credit: Kevin McElvaney/Greenpeace
About the Project
In 2017 our research team revealed that the world's largest tropical peatland is located in the geographical heart of Africa. Over 10,000 years peat has been building up. Today the central Congo peatlands store 30 billion tonnes of carbon, requiring careful protection.
CongoPeat brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading experts to study this newly discovered yet threatened ecosystem.
Starting the second day of our African Peatlands meeting at the @royalsociety, Yannick Bocko explains spatial variability in biomass across the Congo peatlands – the vegetation machine for carbon-dense ecosystem development @CongoPeat
@DargieGreta gets our @royalsociety African peatlands meeting started with a review of state of knowledge on these globally important carbon-dense ecosystems @CongoPeat
Interested in tropical peatlands? On 17-18 February, we have the first ever scientific conference on African peatlands, at the Royal Society in London. Free to attend+streamed online (w/ French subtitles). Register here: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2025/02/african-peatlands/
Contact us
- Tel.: +44 (0)113 343 3341
- Email: admin@congopeat.net
- Twitter: @CongoPeat
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